Rancho Costa Nada: The Dirt Cheap Desert Homestead
by Phil Garlington
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Rancho Costa Nada outlines the principles for the dirt cheap desert homestead, including transportation, sanitation, food storage, electricity, and much, much more, plus fascinating portraits of the desert homesteaders who are Phil Garlington's neighbours. This book is an American classic, full of ingenuity and good old Yankee know-how, and making do, and living way off the grid, and getting by on your own without kissing anybody's ass, or being a slave to the consumer economy. This is an show more amazing tale of what can be done on a low-tech scale with good old American free-thinking in these high-tech times. show lessTags
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It's not a how-to book that is very wide in scope, it's just how Phil happened to do it, along with frequently fascinating anecdotes about some of the techniques employed by his neighboring desert homesteaders.
Phil's got chutzpah. Very funny, and , though I wouldn't want to do it exactly like Phil does it, still inspiring.
Phil's got chutzpah. Very funny, and , though I wouldn't want to do it exactly like Phil does it, still inspiring.
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- Nonfiction, Home & Garden, Sports and Leisure
- DDC/MDS
- 643.2 — Applied science & technology Home economics & family management Housing and household equipment Special-purpose housing and special kinds of housing; houseboats
- LCC
- HD7287.95 .G375 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class
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